Rotten Tomatoes

Movies / TV

    Celebrity

      No Results Found

       View All       Movies Tv shows Shop News Showtimes

      I Wouldn't Be in Your Shoes

      1948 1h 10m Mystery & Thriller Crime Drama List
      Reviews 50% Fewer than 50 Ratings Audience Score An innocent dancer is accused of a murder after his shoe prints are found at the scene, but his wife follows the trail of clues to find the real perpetrator. Read More Read Less

      Audience Reviews

      View All (3) audience reviews
      Dallas H The tap dancer is falsely accused of murder after chucking his shoes out the window and right into a crime scene. He states to the police he hasn't killed anyone since Newark. An entertainer's turn of phrase, of course. But he could have implied he was all tapped out on being guilty of the crime. I liked this movie. It isn't a deep dive into film noir, but still an entertaining pulp fiction story. Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 12/13/23 Full Review ashley h I Wouldn't Be in Your Shoes is a decent film. It is about a dancer who is pinned for murder after his shoe prints are found at the scene of the crime. Don Castle and Elyse Knox give good performances. The screenplay is a little slow in places. William Nigh did an alright job directing this movie. I liked this motion picture because of the drama and mystery. Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 03/31/23 Full Review Audience Member Typical for a Woolrich adaptation, you have to buy into the central conceit to enjoy the resulting nightmare scenario here. In this instance, it is that a shoe print is the most damningly absolute form of evidence. The circumstances are pretty amusing, with a dancer protagonist couple and methodical police whose dialogue anticipates their incriminating behavior. The direction is tight, not lingering too long on investigatory and court drama elements. Instead, devices of candy hearts, a Death Row phonograph, and persistent shoe emphasis are used to engage and heighten the pace. But the ending still felt forced and programmatic, though not unusually so. Still, this has a solid script and good central cast, managing to pull off some fun melodrama with an ironic twist. Rated 3 out of 5 stars 01/26/23 Full Review Read all reviews Post a rating

      Cast & Crew

      Show Less Cast & Crew Show More Cast & Crew

      Photos

      View All I Wouldn't Be in Your Shoes photos

      I Wouldn't Be in Your Shoes

      I Wouldn't Be in Your Shoes (1948) I Wouldn't Be in Your Shoes (1948) I Wouldn't Be in Your Shoes (1948) I Wouldn't Be in Your Shoes (1948) I Wouldn't Be in Your Shoes (1948) View more photos

      Critics Reviews

      View All (2) Critics Reviews
      Francois Truffaut Arts (France) I Wouldn’t Be in Your Shoes is one of those films you go see while expecting the worst; it’s the strength of American cinema to hold out a couple of nice surprises of this sort fairly regularly. May 6, 2022 Full Review Dennis Schwartz Dennis Schwartz Movie Reviews The film's ordinariness is overcome by the realistic matter-of-fact way it made its case against capital punishment. Rated: B- Oct 11, 2004 Full Review Read all reviews

      Movie Info

      Synopsis An innocent dancer is accused of a murder after his shoe prints are found at the scene, but his wife follows the trail of clues to find the real perpetrator.
      Director
      William Nigh
      Screenwriter
      Steve Fisher
      Production Co
      Monogram Pictures
      Genre
      Mystery & Thriller, Crime, Drama
      Original Language
      English
      Runtime
      1h 10m